This is the latest in a series of nine Radar entries over the next five weeks detailing trends in the AFC East, downward tendencies each division team wants to correct for the coming season and upward strides that each team wants to continue into 2009:    

Rodney Harrison said it after the Patriots' 19-10 win over the Jets in the Green & White's Game 2 home opener last year:

"It's a nice win… More

The Jet and Brett fans were coming over the hills this afternoon — a crowd estimated at a Jets training camp-record 10,500 for today's single camp practice.

And for Jets head coach Eric Mangini, It was a midday news conference just like every other one he's had this summer ... not!

This was the news conference before the first practice for new Jets QB Brett Favre. The media room at Weeb Ewb… More

For football fans, this is the most wonderful time of the year. For players who become final cuts and for the coaches who have to do the cutting, this time is less than wonderful.

"I'll tell you, they're all difficult," Jets head coach Eric Mangini, who had to move 22 players to get his roster to 53 players, said on a just completed conference call. "It's never easy to tell someone he's not goin… More